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Re:The last days of Silicon Roundabout by glenjamin on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:06AM (#28614675)
The reason for basically all of the problems you have described is over a decade of systematic under funding by the current government.

Continually forcing trusts to make cuts and costs savings result in them running with no slack at all - which leaves no room to make improvements, thus perpetuating the downward spiral.

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Re:The last days of Silicon Roundabout by iso1210 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:12AM (#28614697)
Not just the current government, UK health care funding (regardless of source) has been about £1k a year per capita lower than France, Germany, Netherlands etc for 40 years (and about £8k a year lower than the US).

In 2016, UK governemnt/compulsory funding was $3175 per person. Germany $4781. The US was $8080.

Compare for yourself.

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

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